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🚀 BREAKING NEWS! 🚀 Thrilled to announce the launch of
@generalautonomy
, a venture by
@bhanuism
and me! 🌟 Our mission is to revolutionize the future of factories! 🏭✨ (1/6)
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Thank you to everyone in this journey. Users, investors, team, partners and competition alike.
आप सभी को शत शत नमन 🙏🏼
Join us, if you are interested in building the future of content in India :)
Now, back to building.
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The only true privilege Ankush, Bhanu and I had was the fact that we found each other, as cofounders and friends, and we were surrounded by really amazing people at IIT. It is rare. On other comments, two of us had loans to pay, the third had no family earnings. (1/2)
Ankush and Farid iterated on 15 ideas right from college days and probably in <2 years time until they built Sharechat. If you call that privilege, then you can undermine each and everyone by using the logic of privilege
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It was an honour to meet you in person today
@jack
Desi Twitter meets Original Twitter.
@sharechatapp
@Twitter
@AnkushSach
Jai Hind!!!
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The word “vernacular” has its origin in the Latin word “verna” which means home-born slave
I request with both hands folded that the Indian startup ecosystem, the govt, the media and everybody else stop calling Indic startups or local language startups, as vernacular startups! 🙏🏼
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It will happen right in front of everyone's eyes. Nobody will observe it. Nobody will appreciate it.
But, when the dream completes, India would have happened.
India aa raha hai...
Hum aa rahe hain!
Jai Hind 🙏
India’s new technology infrastructure has created a platform to build domestic tech giants by
@jshieber
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We don’t hear a single lab at any of the
#IITs
attempting the replication of ambient super conductors in India.
Being a Material Scientist I am ashamed that none of our profs and scientists are even trying. 30+colleges with material science faculty, ~500 labs & “0” experiments!
The fact that like a dozen Chinese labs have been able to attempt replication of the ambient superconductor in less time than a single US lab should be a freaking wake-up call about institutional hurdles to progress in the US.
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The true point to understand is that we did 15 ideas in <2 yrs, that is roughly 1 idea every 45 days. Moving fast, iterating scrappily and getting consumer feedback quick should be key takeaway. We were on borrowed oxygen. Had it become 3 years, there was no dice roll left (2/2)
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Original thinking and original product always defeats any copycats big time, whether incumbent or fellow startup.
Great going
@HarshPokharna1
@gauravkunwar
and Godspeed
@_okcredit
Lucky to be a small part of your journey.
India’s OkCredit (YC S18) raises $67M to help small merchants digitize their bookkeeping:
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I am very grateful to so many unsung heroes who have played their role in helping us get here.
And ofcourse, one of our greatest supporter, mentor, hero and friend has been
@pratshukla
whose debt I don’t think we will ever be able to repay in this lifetime.
@TechCrunch
@refsrc
Now since the article talks about
@sharechatapp
origin, I would like to thank
@pratshukla
for making that call and introducing to
@frdahsan
@AnkushSach
@bhanuism
to
@IndiaQuotient
. It has been a privilege to be small part of your journey.
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For whomsoever it matters.
I am currently reskilling myself with coding skills. There is no new startup and there is no term sheet I have signed either🙏🏼
If I have polluted your timeline, consider it as a reminder that you should learn AI programming as well, if you haven’t yet!
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I hope people will read, understand and act.
In hospitals and clinics, please give priority to patients for being given seats when waiting regardless of “gender”, “age”, “looks” etc.
Someone definitely needs it more than your wife, your Samosa gulping dad or your crying kid.
🙏🏼
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Proud to have you as an investor and advisor
@jack
What a hero!!!
I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to
#startsmall
LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here:
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Content X Commerce!
LIVE. Only
@mojappofficial
Courtesy: the cool folks at
@Flipkart
Excited to announce our partnership with
@Flipkart
to enable Video & Live commerce on
@mojappofficial
and unlock a major monetization lever for our creators.
Thread... 🧵
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Thank you
@LightspeedIndia
for organising a great event and inviting me for the same. The ecosystem is evolving from its infancy via growing pains. It is amazing to see the startup community in BLR and India as a whole, become competitve and comparable to the best globally!!!
Our first masterclass speaker for today -
@frdahsan
talking about
@sharechatapp
and the story from zero to one!
#EE2018
#StartupIndia
#ecosystem
#startup
#startupindia
#VentureCapital
#business
#Marketing
#Entrepreneurship
#tech
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@kunalb11
Folks throwing arguments around MSTeams and Disney+, against large startups like Slack and Netflix; don’t probably understand that this is act 3, where they no longer ignore you or laugh at you, but where they fight you. The 4th act, as we all know, is where you win!
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All D2C brands will go offline eventually and become independent BRANDS of their own.
D2C is just a Go To Market strategy for good challenger brands using online channels efficiently!
Spicy take by HUL India CEO on competition from D2C brands.
HUL adds 5000 CR of revenue a year at their scale by growing 10-15%.🤯
So a 100-500cr runrate brand is a rounding error.
Question is can the new brands continue growing at these rates to eventually become a threat?
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Thank you
@Accel_India
and
@_AnandDaniel
for creating a great podcast series. Really grateful for considering a part of our story to be a part of the
#INSIGHTSpodcast
The latest
#INSIGHTSpodcast
is out with
@frdahsan
@sharechatapp
. Hear more from Farid on how his team uses data experiments to understand their audience better, as he gets candid in a conversation with
@_AnandDaniel
#startups
#podcast
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Thank You
@lightspeedvp
@slow
@theinformation
and
@alexeheath
for hosting me and giving ShareChat, and Indian social networks a separate space for talking about our unique geography, culture and approach to solving for the non-English Indian internet user in this new decade.
@frdahsan
, COO ShareChat sat down with
@theinformation
's
@alexeheath
for a fire-side chat on "Social in India & ShareChat's Story" at the SOCIAL 2030 CONFERENCE hosted by
@lightspeedvp
&
@slow
.
#sharechat
#firesidechat
#regional
#socialmedia
#innovation
#social2030
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📣 ShareChat GTL 📣
Join 2 of my favourite product people,
@AnkushSach
and
@manikgupta
in one of the “most insightful yet easy on the ears” chat on how to be a product manager who scales fast with a product that scales faster!
Do join if you love to build!
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Many thanks for meeting us, Ambassador
@KumarAmitMEA
. It was indeed an honor for
@berges
and me. We
@sharechatapp
look forward to engaging with you further on these issues and more.
Met Farid Ahsan, Co-founder
@sharechatapp
, fellow
#IITK
alumni. Face of young confident aspirational
#India
. Need regular dialogue b/w Govt+tech entrepreneurs on impact of digital world
#AI
,
#IOT
, etc economy & security.
@sharechatapp
@IndianEmbassyUS
@frdahsan
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Currently seeing many startups struggling to raise capital after doing well, esp when peers raised a lot of money & showed nothing for growth. Just sucks that lack of ability of a lot of VCs to asses and underwrite risk is going to hamper future critical infra for
#IndianStartups
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I remember the time
@sshekhar127
and I stumbled upon this audio on
@sharechatapp
by our first celebrity, Manoj Yadav, with his first ever commentary.
Dheere dheere hi sahi, par badlav aayega. Aur hum nirantar prayas karenge iss sapne tak pahuchne ke liye.
#LetsMakeIndiaGreatAgain
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All the best
@KhandujaM
Thank you for being the best Partner a bunch of 20-something entrepreneurs could have ever dreamt of!
Very well deserved 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
.
@KhandujaM
, who is now the managing director at
@SAIFPartners
India, has led the co’s investments in startups such as
#sharechat
,
#nobroker
among others
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Thank you
@forbes_india
Honoured 😊
Meet the ShareChat (
@sharechatapp
) founders on our 2017
#30under30
list.
@frdahsan
#BhanuPratapSingh
#AnkushSachdeva
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@AnkushSach
@bhanuism
Cheers
@AnkushSach
@bhanuism
🎉
It has been my honour and privilege to have served on this grand mission of ours. I am confident of the super talented team we have put together! Here’s to another decade of brotherhood and success
Godspeed
@sharechatapp
@mojappofficial
🚀🚀🚀
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वतन के वास्ते जीना
वतन के वास्ते मरना
वतन पर जाँ फ़िदा करना
प्रभु हमको सिखा देना 🙏🏼
Just met a CISF guard at Airport (Mr. Y S Rao), who looked at my ShareChat T-shirt and asked if I worked there.
After my confirmation, he said that he uses ShareChat very regularly and finds it to be the best content platform.
1/n
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There are far more sharks and demons than real “angels” in the Indian Startup ecosystem.
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First 1 Mn users: 24 Months
2nd 1 Mn users: 7 Months
More than 50% are from organic & direct sources.
On a mission to make an employable India 🚀🇮🇳📈
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Learning to code has made me realise that Developers can do everything better than any individual, yet we prod/fin/biz/ops types feel they cannot. It is because developers are far less interested in our simple lives and jargon, one that we guard so heavily to sound sophisticated!
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Onwards and Upwards Forever🚀🚀🚀
To new beginnings with old friends 🤝
Super pumped to partner with
@frdahsan
@bhanuism
on their audacious mission to reimagine factories of the future. Excited to have co-backers in
@anandlunia
@AnkushSach
@ElevCap
Built for the Audacious 🚀
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I really wish people would someday grill those who use taxpayer's money, like how people were grilling Tesla(uses retail investor's money). While the latter is going private to solve issues internally, the former is sort of undeterred by mediocrity or even failure
$TSLA
@elonmusk
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Pichle Hafte Mein is one of the best Original Content creators on
@sharechatapp
Full video available on the link or on the Android app.
पिछले हफ्ते में - EPISODE 5
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Thank You
@airvistara
for the great experience. Maybe other airlines can learn a thing or two from you, on how to really build consumer delight and satisfaction. Thank you for making Indian aviation better!
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Why such a deep cut 😭
@mojappofficial
lies we are all telling ourselves:
1. kal se pakka subah jaldi uthunga
2. bohot ho gaya, ab se no junk food.
3. kal se workout pakka, iss saal abs toh banake rahenge
4. bas ek moj video aur uske baad pakka I'll get back to work
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As our tradition, we
@sharechatapp
have come out with our sentiment analysis of voters in the ongoing
#GujaratElection2017
Great work
@ankitbansal3094
@sshekhar127
and team!
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@sharechatapp
taking a permanent place in a user's life, gaining a life above their tv shelf
#userlove
#superuser
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This is one of the most under-rated super important development for the future of our world!
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Thank you
@amitabhk87
Sir for the kind words.
आपका प्रोत्साहन ही हमें आगे बढ़ने के लिए प्रेरित करता है
#MakeInIndia
Sharechat is doing a unique job of driving India thru regional languages! With Farid Ahsan,an IIT Kanpur alumni & a co -founder of Sharechat
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We
@sharechatapp
promise to endlessly scout for the talent of India and power your
#whatsappwonderbox
@anandmahindra
Looks like this has been on social media for a while but just got it in my
#whatsappwonderbox
Who is this man & where is this? What a talent & what a charismatic character. He paints like a man possessed..Is anyone supporting this Wizard of Wall-Art?
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बढ़िया बात बोली है
@banglani
साहब और
@MridulIitd
साहब ने
अच्छा लगता है जब पूरा पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र (यानी इकोसिस्टम) इस बात को समझे और पहचाने की आने वाला भारत गुज़रे हुए भारत से काफ़ी भिन्नता रखेगा।
#भारतफर्स्ट
"इंटरनेट का 99.9% कंटेंट उन भाषाओं में है जो 90% भारतीय समझ ही नहीं सकते"
-
@MridulIitd
shares his framework to evaluate local content businesses.
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🤘🏽
Are you ready to Moj with
@remodsouza
????
Don't miss the chance to become a Dancing Star.
Win the SuperStar Kit officially signed by
@remodsouza
#MojwithRemo
#letsmoj
#moj
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@sharechatapp
presents RECAP'17
One last look at the highs and the lows, the YESes and the NOs, the incidents that defined us and the ones that refined us.
Let there be hope. Hope for a better world and a greater India.
#sharechat
#HNY2018
#LetsMakeIndiaGreatAgain
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Thank you for this great piece
@KhandujaM
Where we
@sharechatapp
are today is not just the startup's work, one always needs the right investors to mentor and advice them through the journey.
And thank you for being that investor, supporting us through thick and thin.
More power to you guys
@sharechatapp
@frdahsan
@AnkushSach
@bhanuism
… privileged to be your partner on this one-of-a-kind journey
@YourStoryCo
@SAIFPartners
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Does a founder become Ex-founder if they are not in an operating role in the company they founded?
When should a founder be called an ex-founder? Is it even fair to do that?
Have seen pitch decks, VCs, colleagues and even founders calling themselves ex-founders in our ecosystem!
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Perfect in our aspect.
@sharechatapp
The best marginal market is the one that's small because it's the future, but no one realizes it yet.
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@anandlunia
This calls for a change in IES/IAS with the introduction of Computer Science as a possible subject.
And if possible the formulation of Indian Information Technology Services, similarly on the lines of how IAS and IFS came about initially
@narendramodi
ji hope you are listening :)
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Privileged to have raised $3mn in seed funding from
@IndiaQuotient
,
@ElevCap
, and have our favourite investors
@KhandujaM
and
@AnandLunia
mentor us in this new innings. (4/6)
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One of those things where one says:
“Truer tales have never been told”
I'm shocked that Zoom crushed Google in enterprise video conferencing.
Google: 1) owns calendaring, 2) has a video conferencing product, 3) has built video products at incredible scale, & 4) has many of the best engs on earth.
And yet Hangouts is much glitchier/worse than Zoom.
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Yes. This happened 😅
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@ThEbmr
@JBhatia001
@TeamPratilipi
@sharechatapp
We have begun a few things under the ShareChat Talkies project. Recently, relaunched "18days - महाभारत का महायुद्ध" in Hindi on the platform with
@GraphicIndia
I do believe there's a lot of rich content still untouched, which will uncover in good time.
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"Go global. Talk local"
#sharechat
@sharechatapp
@KhandujaM
@anandlunia
@dkhare
@IndiaQuotient
@SAIFPartners
@lightspeedvp
Regional language apps all the rage, to have 250 million users in next 3 years by
@ShashwatiET
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Important disclosure: We LOVE robots! 😍 Especially industrial ones—they help us "make" things! With a vision to make mass manufacturing agile and distributed like software development, we're in Bengaluru but working globally. 🌎 (3/6)
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• 9 innerwear brands
Actors:
@RanveerOfficial
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
@S1dharthM
,
@iTIGERSHROFF
,
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• 3 Agarbatti brands
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• Cheap Electronic brands
• Construction Material
#bharat
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“Even though Apple will never be the great company it could have been”
LOL
🗓 On this day in 1998 the iMac was released
(Via our newsletter: )
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Need urgent help in Varanasi,UP.
Exact requirement: Injection clexane 0.6ml
#CovidSOS
#COVIDEmergency2021
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Factories are complex puzzles, and automation is the key to seeing the full picture, leading to safer, efficient, and standardized production. 🔧🤖 (2/6)
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To the real heroes on
#WorldHealthDay2020
Thank You!!!
On
#worldhealthday
, we applaud all doctors, nurses and medical personnel across the globe for staying away from their families and taking care of us during this challenging time.
Together we will weather this crisis.
#WorldHeathDay2020
#Covid19
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@pratshukla
@sharechatapp
Thank you for giving me the privilege to talk to all these gifted individuals of
@masaischool
.
You are on a great mission. So excited for the future of the Indian ecosystem.
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@DalrympleWill
Fascinated. Hypnotized. You are just amazing. Read Nine Lives. The best read ever _/\_
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@join2manish
@okcredit
@PlayMPL
@LeanAgri_India
@redBus_in
@rupeekapp
@HaikuJAM
@AbleJobsapp
@Meesho_Official
@Cashify_
Too many of them but I believe Indian Twitter wouldn’t count cause well they don’t use those apps. Far few people understand Twitter India is niche not mainstream :)
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@sinhamadhukar
I think distribution not product is the biggest moat but a great product would provide deeper inroads for getting that big distribution quickly.
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@KhandujaM
It can also be countered through sleeping. The more you sleep the healthier you are, and more efficient when you are at work.
Just, what I do 🤷🏻♂️
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@Nareshksachdeva
Sir ShareChat is Indian app
Made by Indians in India
All others may be Chinese
But ShareChat is Indian, made by engineers from IIT Kanpur. I am one of the founders along with Ankush Sachdeva and Bhanu Singh.
🙏🏼 Jai Hind
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Content is one of the few sectors in India that Indian startups could and should dominate!!! via
@FinancialTimes
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Nothing beats Bhojpuri 😂
#sharechat
Bhojpuri on
@sharechatapp
#मीठीबोलियां week on ShareChat Hindi
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@ElevCap
E-L-E-V-A-T-I-O-N The new name is so apt!!!
All the best
@radusuma
@KhandujaM
@mukularora
and the 'SAIF' team!
Thank You for playing a huge transformational role in the lives of so many founders like me.
As you folks always say "Onwards and Upwards🚀🚀🚀"
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All the best Team
@FlynoteCom
and
@partprat
in this new avatar!
I just subscribed to Vibecity. Check it out 👉
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This is some really fantastic research done on bowling and
@imjadeja
is right there at the top in home conditions! 👏🏼👏🏼
Home and away: bowlers who travel well and those who don't | The Cricket Monthly | ESPN Cricinfo
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@varun_giri79
Sir ShareChat is Indian app
Made by Indians in India
All others may be Chinese
But ShareChat is Indian, made by engineers from IIT Kanpur. I am one of the founders.
🙏🏼 Jai Hind
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@Nani_Fan_Ikkada
@VinayDevarakon6
@JanuSweety4
@DishaMNaik
@madhulika0909
@NameIsGangadhar
@havishmark111
@AgadalaRamkrish
@gvpraina03
Hi
ShareChat is an Indian App
It is made by Indians in India
It also has Indian founders and is made by engineers from IIT
I am one of the founders. Request you to not call us Chinese.
Jai Hind 🙏🏼
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Amazing feat by an amazing roboticist!
Great job
@surajhanchinal
Classic Kohli drive loading!!! 🦾
It bats! Was a lot of fun testing this today. Need to fix a few issues but batting robot is almost a go! YouTube video coming soon!!
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When the competition says this about you, everything and everyone else sounds stupid. Power to both of you
@deepigoyal
@shearsha
🙏🙏🙏
#swiggy
We compete with Swiggy rigorously, and we have never had a competitor we have respected so much (5/8)
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@NewspeakIndia
@mumbaikerr
ShareChat is Indian app and owned by Indian company. I am one of the founders. I graduated from IIT-Kanpur. We are trying hard to build the first big Indian social network from last 4 years. Please don't call us Chinese. Thank You.
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Cinematic gem by Moj user Sujith on Superstar Mammooty’s birthday
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Separated by kms and languages...
United by one single culture!
Happy New Year to all of us 🇮🇳
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